As a college coach I will tell you that it makes no sense to allow a team to score when they have even the possibility of going up by 10. You allow teams to score to get the ball back when you are down by 1 late in the game and they are inside their own 10, or if you are needing two scores to get back into a game. It is highly doubtful that a team that is in a two, three, or four point game allows a score in order to get the ball back.In a one score game why would you go down by two scores just to get the ball back. Now, I have not seen film of this game and my guess may be wrong but that does not make a lot of sense to me. Good luck to the Engineers the rest of the season and the playoffs.
Hoover's Boys 1997